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Svensta	Date: June 27, 2002 @ 8:49 AM I'm with you Dee! I'm ..... about 7 months free and clear. (Had to fulfill my columbia house agreement ) Death to the infrastructure. Just be prepared to talk me down from the roof when NiN puts out something new, kay? :0
princess-angry	Date: June 27, 2002 @ 11:23 AM is renting ok???? I just borrow and copy... that's ok right??? I am with you dee all the way!!!!
milladrive	Date: June 27, 2002 @ 11:47 AM I've been at it since last September. In fact, I even thin I wrote a boycott article back around November. I don't like the idea of helping to put more pinstripes on Hilary's car, so I continue.
princess-angry	Date: June 27, 2002 @ 12:18 PM cool.... : pukes all over hillary's car:
mtbatol	Date: June 27, 2002 @ 9:29 PM dag nabbit CDC... I was gonna hotwire the thing!!! Oh well, so much about impressing the chicks with a nice new Lexus
milladrive	Date: June 27, 2002 @ 9:31 PM hahahahaaha
pog	Date: June 28, 2002 @ 5:33 AM it'll clean off... it's just a little puke.....
pog	Date: June 28, 2002 @ 7:24 PM see... just hoses right off
princess-angry	Date: June 28, 2002 @ 8:01 PM cool I did that so she would not want the car no more.... he he.... pukes on another riaa persons crappy 12 dollar car...
RyanS	Date: June 28, 2002 @ 8:43 PM Man, I can't disrupt the RIAA in peace without someone puking on my $12 car..lol Oh well, maybe it would raise the value of the damn thing..lol
Wordsense	Date: June 29, 2002 @ 12:11 AM fuck 'em...
princess-angry	Date: June 29, 2002 @ 10:32 AM yep... I'll do so.... he he I'll just borrow and copy.... he he..... cd burners rock!!! he he
princess-angry	Date: June 29, 2002 @ 10:52 AM http://images2.dmusic.com/users/s/v/e/svensta/1228.jpg is what happpens if the riaa parks thier cars in my driveway!!!! thanx 2 smelv for putting the pic there!!!" id="12035">http://images2.dmusic.com/users/s/v/e/svensta/1228.jpg is what happpens if the riaa parks thier cars in my driveway!!!! thanx 2 smelv for putting the pic there!!!
Svensta	Date: June 29, 2002 @ 11:10 AM
princess-angry	Date: June 29, 2002 @ 11:12 AM oh my gosh!!! sorry!!!! it's svens!!!! I am so comnfused today and I had too much coffee!!!! to hyper to type!!!!! sorry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
princess-angry	Date: June 29, 2002 @ 11:13 AM I can't concentrate!!
Svensta	Date: June 29, 2002 @ 11:38 AM heheh, no worries, Auntie, just lay off the while posting! j/k
princess-angry	Date: June 29, 2002 @ 11:38 AM he he... thanx!!!
smelv1n	Date: June 29, 2002 @ 12:53 PM Aaaaah!!! aahah!! too MUCH PRESSURE!! aahaaaHHH1!!
TheWitchingHour	Date: June 29, 2002 @ 1:31 PM The boycott for me has gone on since last October thanks to Milla's article he had up around that time.
milladrive	Date: June 29, 2002 @ 4:07 PM I wish witch were a woman. heh
princess-angry	Date: June 29, 2002 @ 6:27 PM he he.,..,.,.,....,
JohnnyBoomBoom	Date: June 30, 2002 @ 2:52 AM I've been boycotting the RIAA for almost 36 hours... Just bought the new Wilco CD and I must say that its one of the better purchases I've ever made. I prefer to own an actual copy of a CD rather than a burn... just a collection thing.
theguppykillers	Date: June 30, 2002 @ 4:47 PM I cant do any thing that has boy in it cause Im a man!
mtbatol	Date: June 30, 2002 @ 7:49 PM Heh, well mancott or girlcott or womancott it then
backmann	Date: July 1, 2002 @ 12:21 AM Sorry, I don't want to be (can't find the word), but I honestly don't see the point.
-X-	Date: July 1, 2002 @ 11:14 AM If we boycott they will blame the lost sales on piracy of course. #$%&$#% Couldn't have anything to do with the war they are starting with their consumers..
princess-angry	Date: July 1, 2002 @ 11:50 AM and then they will rack down harder.... hopefully they won't
Svensta	Date: July 1, 2002 @ 12:09 PM Well, if the boycott gathers steam enough so that they impact sales, we start doing op-eds about how it's NOT piracy, but a conscious choice made by the democratic legions exerting our control on the situation. Napster got MORE than enough airtime. If the numbers actually start changing, We're gonna end up on Crossfire on CNN debating things with the talking heads and policymakers. The RIAA would be advertising our impact as a unit. They aren;t that stupid.
TheWitchingHour	Date: July 1, 2002 @ 7:34 PM Well I also was smart enough to complain (wrote several paragraphs explaining) to my favorite major label artists their labels, and the RIAA website that I was doing the the boycott and this is why I cannot support your work anymore except when I find it used no matter how long it took to find a used copy.
BrianKRALL	Date: July 1, 2002 @ 9:57 PM I don't like this idea. Artists need support, you're hurting the artist more than the RIAA.
Svensta	Date: July 1, 2002 @ 10:50 PM I concur, Brian, but they unfortunately became casualties of this war the moment they signed up with the Association. This can't be bloodless. We have to hurt them as deeply as possible to enact change, and that means the acts under contract have to suffer. I also support looking into and rewriting the standard contract recording artists have to sign as well.
wegroovin	Date: July 2, 2002 @ 12:05 AM I have not bought a CD in 3 years. I have filled my four(400)hundred disk changer with cd's full of music that i have downloaded. I do however pay to see my favorite artists perform live almost everynight.(MOSTLY LOCAL MUSIC)support your local music scene. I am also an avid Taper of live shows,burning CD'S everywhere that I am allowed,and sharing for free under the request of most musicians who just want to be heard. I am also a song writing performing artist and I understand what signing my rights away means. I urge everyone to boycott the RIAA/MPAA. Lets all change the way music is acquired FOREVER.
Svensta	Date: July 2, 2002 @ 8:51 AM Or used! Or blanks!
TheWitchingHour	Date: July 2, 2002 @ 2:02 PM Exactly that's the point I was trying to get across when you buy a cd the majority of it goes to the label and RIAA the artist gets a few shiny silvers (if they are lucky) out of your purchase. Perhaps in time compensating the artist for used sales/downloads on an individual basis will become much more common.
princess-angry	Date: July 2, 2002 @ 3:40 PM I'll write a song about the riaa and send it to gup...
Svensta	Date: July 2, 2002 @ 3:54 PM Even better then. We won't be impacting the artists too terribly as the Association already scams them out of most of the money they make on sales.
princess-angry	Date: July 2, 2002 @ 3:55 PM I know you said it sven
JohnnyBoomBoom	Date: July 3, 2002 @ 1:33 AM I can live without britney. But I dont want to live without Billy Joel, Wilco, Bad Religion, Arlo Guthrie, Blind Guardian, Gordon Lightfoot, Hall and Oates... and the list goes on. No I cant live without my entertainment, music it was makes my life worth living in many aspects and that includes the music I listen to. I dont own a CD burner, and I'd rather just go out and get the CD in one shot rather than download it. If it supports the RIAA, well, then I guess thats the price I pay... in addition to the 16.99. I really dont know what to tell ya.
JohnnyBoomBoom	Date: July 3, 2002 @ 3:15 AM Okay, well I guess since I like buying my favorite artists CDs. I like supporting the major labels... or at least by your line of thinking. Whatever, I used to care, I hit a wall of apathy with subjects like this though when my personal life went to shit heh. But this is pointless banter.
RyanS	Date: July 3, 2002 @ 2:30 PM Actually what we need to do is find ways to support our favorite artists without giving it to the industry.
JohnnyBoomBoom	Date: July 3, 2002 @ 2:50 PM The best way to support your favorite artists moneywise is to go to their shows, as far as I know anyway. Thats how most musicians actually make their bucks is from the live show.
Svensta	Date: July 3, 2002 @ 8:42 PM Are you Billy Joel's and Gordon Lightfoot's accountant then? Regardless, this is about boycotting, sorry you can't join us, but it's a free world. Best of luck with your own music career. Ryan, you think there's a way to manage that? I would think there's a clause in their label contracts about getting money outside their control or sumtin...
RyanS	Date: July 3, 2002 @ 9:38 PM I'm sure of that Sven. But something like that would show that we, as fans, do care for the artists' music, unlike how Miss Bitch aka Hilary Rosen thinks with that puss-infested skull of hers..
theguppykillers	Date: July 3, 2002 @ 9:44 PM ya know if artist with money would pull together they could start there own underground corp. and kill off the middle man them selves!but this would take time cause most of them are stuck in contracts and bla bla bla! just a thought. I have no clue what is going on
theguppykillers	Date: July 4, 2002 @ 12:02 AM what ever! oh Im sorry! did you start this thread, well I will make sure I dont come back to this one again!
theguppykillers	Date: July 4, 2002 @ 12:04 AM what ever
RyanS	Date: July 4, 2002 @ 12:11 AM what the hell
Svensta	Date: July 4, 2002 @ 10:15 AM Ease up there, Deegirl, a bunch of the members here are with ya! Just remember every clown gets an opinion, it's what we are celebrating today! I care I dare I share Come get me coppers!
princess-angry	Date: July 4, 2002 @ 1:35 PM let's all calm down and enjoy the holiday and party not just for the 4th but party and pirate all day and have a big ol pirate party!!!! and get drunk and act liek real pirates and go on a ship and take over other peoples boats and go find the buryed tresure... the riaa's money and run off with it and take off in your ship and shoot cannonballs at the riaa's HQ!!! that's what yall should do that would be cool!!!!! GO GET YOUR BOOTY!!! HAR HAR HAR!!!!!!!!
princess-angry	Date: July 4, 2002 @ 1:36 PM Pirates Pirates!! Lots and lots of pirates!!! Pirates Pirates!! Lots and lots of pirates!!!
princess-angry	Date: July 4, 2002 @ 1:37 PM and go get some captain morgan and party liek a pirate!!!
smelv1n	Date: July 4, 2002 @ 11:33 PM mmmm, captain morgans is tasty stuff
princess-angry	Date: July 5, 2002 @ 3:22 PM yep!!
Svensta	Date: July 5, 2002 @ 4:24 PM hey now I am dutifully offended The above activities are being protrayed as the work of pirates when my ancestors in Norway were the ORIGINATORS of such bad manners and privateering. ahem Screw it, let's just take over.
creativetim	Date: July 9, 2002 @ 2:16 AM Check the picture I made. (In my picture section of course)
Svensta	Date: July 12, 2002 @ 8:57 AM Everyone still boycotting? GOOD!!!! I have 210 tracks out of my library for the week, off my pace of last week but there you go. If you know of some REALLY overhyped, mass-market albums getting released soon, let me know. I plan on downloading them and sharing them, just on principles. The "take my tunes, please" folder on my server is becoming VERY popular!
ChillinBuzz	Date: July 12, 2002 @ 3:47 PM The internet connection in my house has had a good hammering this week, 'obtaining music for the sole purpose of listening prior to purchasing...' - damn, the cash machine swallowed my card, just have to hold on to my downloads a while longer
RyanS	Date: July 12, 2002 @ 4:03 PM Good thing about having no money, can't buy music! So I'm still boycotting..hehe Even when I do get money, you won't see me getting any more music either
princess-angry	Date: July 12, 2002 @ 7:25 PM I'm savin my money for an aiwa sound system!!! not WASTING it on junk cd's liek then ones out now.... all this anti copy ones.... any anti copy cd is JUNK!!!! I'd rather spend my money on an aiwa sound system and burn my OWN cd's!!!!
ChillinBuzz	Date: July 13, 2002 @ 6:57 AM Damnit! now my hard drive's full. Now I'll just have to back these downloads up to CD
Svensta	Date: July 13, 2002 @ 10:20 PM I have just befriended a gothgirl here that actually has the audacity to BUY CD'S! Gave her my FTP site info and hopefully that will cure her of THAT nonsense Another convert!
forrix	Date: July 14, 2002 @ 3:53 AM chillin, i totally sympathize!! i really thought i was in the clear for a while when i bought a FORTY GIG hd last year... i haven't even been watching my collection (or the room it's taking up) when all of a sudden last week KABOOM - my comp. locked up!! ran outta friggin space. WTF!
ChillinBuzz	Date: July 14, 2002 @ 7:52 AM I'm just glad CD burners are cheap. I am thinking of buying a backup burner just in case the RIAA ban them or something...
Svensta	Date: July 14, 2002 @ 10:20 AM I just burned my first data DVD this weekend! SWEET! 4.65 gig of musical goodness, playable on any DVD-r, supposedly. I must test. Instant, shrunken hardcopy backups! Hey, you guys interested in trading cd-r's of tunes?
Svensta	Date: July 15, 2002 @ 1:46 PM a cd-r is a once-burn blank CD, ya know! a cd-rw is a multi-burn disc.
mtbatol	Date: July 15, 2002 @ 4:03 PM Why would you burn a disc??? Aren't they gonna just melt??? Whats the point in melting discs??? Crazy kids these days, baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
DeanSB2000	Date: July 15, 2002 @ 11:03 PM I WILL boycott the RIAA if they EVER take my favorite Internet Radio station (Energy 92fm in Chicago) off the air!! Not only that, but I'll go even further... Once I finally am able to afford high-speed internet access, I WILL start using file-sharing software, and I'll basically be saying to the RIAA... G O T O H E L L ! ! ! ! Seriously. I'm SICK AND TIRED of the DAMNED RIAA trying to DICTATE to the rest of us consumers what we are going to hear, and how we will obtain our music!! And I say we should encourage MILLIONS of consumers to OUTRIGHT DEFY the DMCA and the RIAA!! It's time for Congress to get up off their LAZY ASSES and start LISTENING to those who really SHOULD matter... W E T H E P E O P L E ! ! ! ! ! ! And it should be made clear that WE THE PEOPLE DON'T LIKE what's going on with the RIAA and their tactics to have government-imposed ONEROUS regulations of Internet Radio and the attempted shutdown of file-sharing services!! Further, I feel we should find out which towns and cities in North Carolina comprise Rep. Howard Coble's 6th Congressional District, then send mailers out to ALL the constituents in that district, encouraging them to VOTE COBLE OUT OF OFFICE in November!! The same should be done with ALL OTHER SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES who FOOLISHLY listen to the CORRUPT lobbyists of the RIAA INSTEAD of listening to WE THE PEOPLE!!!
Svensta	Date: July 16, 2002 @ 8:53 AM Dean, for someone who appears so ready to begin joining the political movement that is p2p, how come your first sentence says that you WILL join the boycott ONLY IF.... You are going to wait until they kill Energy 92fm? What if they just BUY it? Gonna be happy then?
DeanSB2000	Date: July 16, 2002 @ 4:41 PM I'm not sure if they'll buy it. But I'll do the same if they do buy it, Svensta. Do you or anyone else on here have any idea how we can find a way to send mailers out to the voters in North Carolina's 6th Congressional District? I LOVE that idea, and I wish we could do JUST THAT, and do it maybe not just once, but TWICE or even THREE times before the November elections!! It's a good idea, but HOW are we supposed to implement it?
ChillinBuzz	Date: July 16, 2002 @ 8:20 PM RIAA.COM he says this: "There are several legislative proposals pending in Congress pertaining to online content and digital- rights management. However, the ultimate success of any legislative effort dealing with the application of copyright law to the digital environment depends on a simultaneous commitment to fighting a war on piracy in all its forms. This war must occur on several different fronts, including the commitment of adequate resources to law enforcement, industry cooperation and consumer education. Only when the war against piracy is effectively waged and won will businesses and consumers move in significant numbers to the online marketplace." 1 - Industry cooperation. The only cooperation (and perhaps his objective) is to ensure that nobody has a right but them. Too bad the millions they waste on stopping piracy nets them little reward. Is it really worth wasting that much when they could've just dropped the prices and lost a fraction of that? 2 - Consumer education. That must mean teaching us idiots (the same idiots who voted for him and his RIAA arse-licking chums in the belief they would help) that piracy is wrong. Duh! We already know that you fool. We believe that these companies are also wrong but no-one listens to us. They only listen to the industry. We don't need teaching, we need to be listened to. 3 - Adequate resources to law enforcement. That's right, give the cops more money to waste time busting some 18 year old techie copying DVDs when they could be catching a bank robber or a drug dealer. I am surprised they have any money left, after all a supposedly large sum of money is being lost due to piracy. 4 - Only when the war against piracy is won. You have got to be kidding me! The more they tip the scales to their way of thinking, the more people will think their narrow-minded methods will fail and lose faith. After all, when the last taxpayer's dollar vanishes into the black hole they have in their budget for fighting piracy and they realise that they did things wrong by not listening to the real power, us the consumer, it'll be too late. Or is it a case of keeping this up long enough so they can grab their riches and leave the mess for the next generation? It all falls to the first point. Let them drain themselves and us of every right possible. They'll have to stop eventually as nobody will be paying them anymore. Open your eyes Bob and see both sides of the fence. Are you sure your objectives and your desire to kiss corporate arse are worth so much more than the people who put you there? Piracy is potentially the biggest threat to every industry, but when they react by pouring more fuel on the fire how do they expect to put out the flames???" id="12951">Bob Goodlatte is a Republican from Virginia. In an article I read through RIAA.COM he says this: "There are several legislative proposals pending in Congress pertaining to online content and digital- rights management. However, the ultimate success of any legislative effort dealing with the application of copyright law to the digital environment depends on a simultaneous commitment to fighting a war on piracy in all its forms. This war must occur on several different fronts, including the commitment of adequate resources to law enforcement, industry cooperation and consumer education. Only when the war against piracy is effectively waged and won will businesses and consumers move in significant numbers to the online marketplace." 1 - Industry cooperation. The only cooperation (and perhaps his objective) is to ensure that nobody has a right but them. Too bad the millions they waste on stopping piracy nets them little reward. Is it really worth wasting that much when they could've just dropped the prices and lost a fraction of that? 2 - Consumer education. That must mean teaching us idiots (the same idiots who voted for him and his RIAA arse-licking chums in the belief they would help) that piracy is wrong. Duh! We already know that you fool. We believe that these companies are also wrong but no-one listens to us. They only listen to the industry. We don't need teaching, we need to be listened to. 3 - Adequate resources to law enforcement. That's right, give the cops more money to waste time busting some 18 year old techie copying DVDs when they could be catching a bank robber or a drug dealer. I am surprised they have any money left, after all a supposedly large sum of money is being lost due to piracy. 4 - Only when the war against piracy is won. You have got to be kidding me! The more they tip the scales to their way of thinking, the more people will think their narrow-minded methods will fail and lose faith. After all, when the last taxpayer's dollar vanishes into the black hole they have in their budget for fighting piracy and they realise that they did things wrong by not listening to the real power, us the consumer, it'll be too late. Or is it a case of keeping this up long enough so they can grab their riches and leave the mess for the next generation? It all falls to the first point. Let them drain themselves and us of every right possible. They'll have to stop eventually as nobody will be paying them anymore. Open your eyes Bob and see both sides of the fence. Are you sure your objectives and your desire to kiss corporate arse are worth so much more than the people who put you there? Piracy is potentially the biggest threat to every industry, but when they react by pouring more fuel on the fire how do they expect to put out the flames???
Svensta	Date: July 16, 2002 @ 8:50 PM Well, on point 3, if the cops here will be as good at catching pirates as they are catching OTHER criminals, then I suggest D-Music (and Blex and MP3City and ALL the others) move their servers here and start a sharing fest. They are good at standing around ESPECIALLY since 9/11, and not much else! Good post though, Buzzie
Emyhr	Date: July 16, 2002 @ 9:15 PM yea they do suck..
leflaw	Date: July 25, 2002 @ 8:56 PM Now Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis and the Beatles surely did't give them any right to broadcast their material in a digital format - these were only record companies, not broadcasters - but 50 years later - they stela the right by legislation sponsored by - You know who, the RIAA. Next the sponsor and pass the DMCA, the Digital Millenium copyright act, that has caused so musch litigation and constitutional invasions of privacy. The RIAA and the movie industry, just today sponsored a bill to allow thenm TO HACK YOUR COMPUTER ANFD TRASH IT LOOKING FOR MP3 files!!!!!!!!!! Check it out. WE have to do something. THIS COMMUNITY. If not us who? Mp3.com is gone, sold to Universal after lawsuits. Napster, Audiogalaxy, etc. IF NOT US, THEN WHO? IF NOT NOW, THEN WHEN? GET UP STAND UP. What can you do? 1. Upload your music here, not at Mp3.com 2. Host your band's site here, not on a commercial server who won't try to protect your rights to keep your distribution channels FREE & CLEAR! 3. BOYCOTT- RIAA! - Don't buy from them, don't record for them, and DONT SIGN THEIR BULLSHIT CONTRACTS! IF YOU DO, you deserve what you get, at tleast in the 21st century. The older guys got screwed retroactively. Don't be a fool. Forget that record contract bullshit. The RIAA is an international Cartel. Stay away from them. Haven't they ruined music enough yet? " id="13682">Here's whats going on: Until 1995, who ever heard of the RIAA? Then all of a sudden they burst on the scene, like the sherriff of Nottingham yelling "The King has given me the right to take your land , your digital rights! I now have the new right under the copyright act section 106 (6) of "DIGITAL AUDIO DELIVERY". Now Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis and the Beatles surely did't give them any right to broadcast their material in a digital format - these were only record companies, not broadcasters - but 50 years later - they stela the right by legislation sponsored by - You know who, the RIAA. Next the sponsor and pass the DMCA, the Digital Millenium copyright act, that has caused so musch litigation and constitutional invasions of privacy. The RIAA and the movie industry, just today sponsored a bill to allow thenm TO HACK YOUR COMPUTER ANFD TRASH IT LOOKING FOR MP3 files!!!!!!!!!! Check it out. WE have to do something. THIS COMMUNITY. If not us who? Mp3.com is gone, sold to Universal after lawsuits. Napster, Audiogalaxy, etc. IF NOT US, THEN WHO? IF NOT NOW, THEN WHEN? GET UP STAND UP. What can you do? 1. Upload your music here, not at Mp3.com 2. Host your band's site here, not on a commercial server who won't try to protect your rights to keep your distribution channels FREE & CLEAR! 3. BOYCOTT- RIAA! - Don't buy from them, don't record for them, and DONT SIGN THEIR BULLSHIT CONTRACTS! IF YOU DO, you deserve what you get, at tleast in the 21st century. The older guys got screwed retroactively. Don't be a fool. Forget that record contract bullshit. The RIAA is an international Cartel. Stay away from them. Haven't they ruined music enough yet?
ChillinBuzz	Date: July 25, 2002 @ 8:58 PM Hear hear, leflaw
Svensta	Date: July 25, 2002 @ 9:04 PM We really need to step up the exposure and quality of the bands on here (no that's not a slap to anybody on here) I actually talked to a musician friend of mine that is resurrecting his career now, so that's all I can don on here, as I can't do anything but play (and badly) with my mixers
jabeen	Date: July 25, 2002 @ 9:07 PM I'm starting to get some new music on here. Check out Zias and Jabein. i think a lot more is coming on line.
Svensta	Date: July 25, 2002 @ 9:11 PM Welcome to the asylum, Jabeen. I will scope you out definitely!
leflaw	Date: July 25, 2002 @ 10:00 PM Hey jabeen. Nice tracks.
goldenpi	Date: August 3, 2002 @ 11:08 AM One thing I can confidently predict is the RIAA and possibly MPAA are going to start demanding more police focus on piracy. They dont care about other crimes like burglery, murder, etc because that doesn't impact their profit margin. But for that to happen needs a slight change on public oppinion. Remeber how the exploding planes affected people? One day we are all getting on with life, then one public spectical and suddenly afganistan is being blasted into a crater by the US military, half of america is hordeing food and gasmasks, everyone is scared about a smallpox attack thats not going to happen and Pres Bush is milking it for every vote he can get. If something happened to do for piracy what the WTC did for terrorism, such as a major label going bust or a good-sized bribe to the gutter press, they could assign all the money they want for fighting it." id="14917">Already done. Havn't brought a music CD. Ever. I never downloaded label music either, so it didn't cost them any sales. The RIAA mentioned "consumer education". You really shouldn't underestimate the long-term effects of that. One thing the RIAA is afraid of is the effect of a generation of future consumers growing up in a world with computers and easily copyable information. They know if everyone thinks information cannot be controled they will be in serious trouble. Go the the RIAA website, look under anti-piracy and the soundbyteing campaign. An attempt to perswade people in colledge that downloading music is wrong and evil, combined with a few warnings about lawyers. What if they try adjusting it to explain (brainwash) to younger people? Will be have piracy policemen touring schools to explain how downloading hurts artists like we have policemen visi schools now to explain about drugs? Its very unlikely, but something to worry about. One thing I can confidently predict is the RIAA and possibly MPAA are going to start demanding more police focus on piracy. They dont care about other crimes like burglery, murder, etc because that doesn't impact their profit margin. But for that to happen needs a slight change on public oppinion. Remeber how the exploding planes affected people? One day we are all getting on with life, then one public spectical and suddenly afganistan is being blasted into a crater by the US military, half of america is hordeing food and gasmasks, everyone is scared about a smallpox attack thats not going to happen and Pres Bush is milking it for every vote he can get. If something happened to do for piracy what the WTC did for terrorism, such as a major label going bust or a good-sized bribe to the gutter press, they could assign all the money they want for fighting it.

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